These quotes remind me of the current istock management, it's from the book "Mastery" by Robert Greene (a real good read by the way):

"In the course of your life you will be continually encountering fools. There are simply too many to avoid. We can classify people as fools by the following rubric: when it comes to practical life, what should matter is getting long-term results, and getting the work done in as efficient and creative a manner as possible. That should be the supreme value that guides people�s actions. But fools carry with them a different scale of values. They place more importance on short-term matters�grabbing immediate money, getting attention from the public or media, and looking good. They are ruled by their ego and insecurities. They tend to enjoy drama and political intrigue for their own sake. When they criticize, they always emphasize matters that are irrelevant to the overall picture or argument. They are more interested in their career and position than in the truth. You can distinguish them by how little they get done, or by how hard they make it for others to get results. They lack a certain common sense, getting worked up about things that are not really important while ignoring problems that will spell doom in the long term."

These quotes remind me of the current istock management, it's from the book "Mastery" by Robert Greene (a real good read by the way):

"In the course of your life you will be continually encountering fools. There are simply too many to avoid. We can classify people as fools by the following rubric: when it comes to practical life, what should matter is getting long-term results, and getting the work done in as efficient and creative a manner as possible. That should be the supreme value that guides people�s actions. But fools carry with them a different scale of values. They place more importance on short-term matters�grabbing immediate money, getting attention from the public or media, and looking good. They are ruled by their ego and insecurities. They tend to enjoy drama and political intrigue for their own sake. When they criticize, they always emphasize matters that are irrelevant to the overall picture or argument. They are more interested in their career and position than in the truth. You can distinguish them by how little they get done, or by how hard they make it for others to get results. They lack a certain common sense, getting worked up about things that are not really important while ignoring problems that will spell doom in the long term."

Let me fix that for you;

These quotes remind me of the current istock management, it's from the book "Mastery" by Robert Greene (a real good read by the way):

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  Just messin'

Sadly this sounds like a perfect description of the U.S. government.  Both sides ... Democrats and Republicans alike.

you kind of lost me at: be efficient and creative.
usually the pursuit of efficiency is what kills creativity.

being creatively efficient is another matter, still not in a good way.

I definitely agree that long-term thinking seems to have gone out the window.

I remember (as many will here) when going to work as a young person was a chance to learn from older and more experienced people who had been in their industry for decades, had learned from older and more experienced people themselves and passed down all the wisdom of their years, all the reasons why 'we do it this way and not that way', because mistakes had been learned from, rectified and had been pre-empted for years by knowledge-gathering and forethought.  To me that's one of the most beautiful things in humanity... that intelligence and ability to learn and apply learning.

What we seem to have now is new technology and new industry and the people in charge are too young in years and/or too young in life/work/particular industry experience to have learned from mistakes and developed the kind of long-term thinking that is required to create real stability and sure-footedness.  So I feel that we're all guinea pigs at the mercy of their errors.

Unfortunately, because people's minds are so fractured these days between all their social media apps, I'm not sure that younger people are learning to properly focus and concentrate long enough to actually solve the problems.  Anything worth doing or learning takes time... but how can you make time if something on the Internet is breaking your concentration every five seconds?  I just can't imagine how this is all going to pan out in the future.  As far as I can see, the human mind (individually and collectively) has never been so swamped and easily distracted before.

That Instagram thing seemed fairly typical of the way things are done these days... "Ahhh that'll do... let's just throw it at a wall and see what sticks....  OOPS!  Damage control!  Damage control!"  I feel as if the world is being run by five year olds these days.

(grumble grumble 'The kids of today!'... bah humbug... etc).

Thanks VP.  But we're not 'getting old' we're just accumulating experience. 

That's so sad Sue.  What a waste of all that experience.  I'm glad they managed to find their feet again, but having to start at the bottom because of others' ignorance, stupidity and bias is just horrendous. 

The people that make these decisions think they're so smart, but they don't realise that all the valuable expertise they discard in favour of 'yoof' can ultimately be detrimental to them.  As with the discussions on gender recently, the only thing that should ever matter is the ability to do the job.